蚂蚁上树 (mǎyǐshàngshù) · "Ants Climbing a Tree"

Measure Word

一份蚂蚁上树 fèn

Meanings

1 "Ants Climbing a Tree"
2 glass noodles with minced pork

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About the dish

川菜 Sichuan · 热菜 Hot dish

Glass noodles cooked with minced pork, chili bean paste and scallion until they soak up the sauce. Savoury and mildly hot. The name, ants climbing a tree, comes from the bits of pork clinging to the noodles.

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Examples

HSK 6

我每次去川菜馆都要点一份蚂蚁上树。

Wǒ měicì qù Chuāncài guǎn dōu yào diǎn yí fèn mǎyǐshàngshù.

I order Ants Climbing a Tree every time I go to a Sichuan restaurant.

HSK 7-9

蚂蚁上树的关键是粉丝要泡软，肉末要炒香。

Mǎyǐshàngshù de guānjiàn shì fěnsī yào pào ruǎn, ròumò yào chǎo xiāng.

The key to Ants Climbing a Tree is properly softened noodles and well-browned minced pork.

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culture

Classic Sichuan home-style dish: mung-bean vermicelli (粉丝) stir-fried with spiced minced pork, douban chili paste, and scallions. The name is visual - specks of dark pork clinging to translucent noodles look like ants climbing twigs. Folk tradition attributes it to the Yuan-dynasty heroine Dou E 窦娥, who supposedly invented it to feed her bedridden mother-in-law cheaply.